EurOpenScholarship: Press Release from the University of Liege

[Stevan Harnad]

                 ** Cross-Posted **

More on EurOpenScholarship from the Rector of the University of Liege
(Excerpt translated from: http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=151 )

     "EurOpenScholar will be a showcase and a tool for the promotion
     of OA in Europe. It will be a consortium of European universities
     resolved to move forward on OA and to try to convince the largest
     possible number of researchers, their institutions and their European
     Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly be the mode
     of communication of tomorrow. The transitional period will be the
     most difficult. Our goal is to facilitate and thereby accelerate as
     much as possible the transition to the OA era.

     "The EurOpenScholar web site, hosted by the ULg,  will provide an
     information-gathering service concerning OA institutional repositories
     and OA journals, with a discussion forum on OA and  the methods
     emerging in the field of scientometrics (research performance and
     impact measurement, ranking and anlysis).

     "EurOpenScholar's primary objective will be to open researchers'
     eyes to the new ways of promoting the spread of knowledge and of
     assessing research progress and performance in the OA era. This
     will contribute to the advancement of research in Europe and to the
     promotion of European research and European researchers.

     "In addition, EurOpenScholar will address itself to research managers,
     funding agencies, national and local research policy-makers, the R&D
     industry, the media, and the general public, facilitating synergies
     and technology transfer and providing an effective channel for the
     communication of  real science to the public, either directly or
     through the media."  [Bernard Rentier, Rector, U. Liege]